The favoured spawn of Deathwing: Nefarian and Onyxia, have now been slain on heroic 25-man mode; completing our progress through Blackwing Descent, and granting us another server first achievement.

I'm hoping they're really dead this time; as resurrected bosses go these ones have had quite a few runs.  

I'm obliged to mention that some mages also did some heroic respeccing and we're all very impressed…

In other news we have also defeated Al'Akir heroic on 10-man mode (which is currently a bit easier than 25-man) for yet another server first achievement. Everyone in that raid forgot to take a screenshot though. Bunch of muppets.

Hopefully we'll be able to report on a 25-man kill of that some time soon, but our focus now is the remainder of the Bastion of Twilight: Ascendant Council, Cho'gall and of course Sinestra.

With our rogues making the noble sacrifice* of going subtlety spec, we went into Bastion of Twilight for our first night of attempts on the dragon twins of Theralion and Valiona and... killed them!

Great job everyone!

* This is what you get when you leave the rogue officer to do all of the news posts

Here is the boss kill report for our first 7 heroic boss kills in Cataclysm!

They said it couldn't be done, that I was not up to the challenge of coming up with a DPC caption for each one, but they were wrong.

Dragon Preponderant Commander

Ok, that one was a stretch, but anyway... Halfus Wyrmbreaker (being one of the easiest heroic-mode bosses) was the first boss on our list to die.

Devastatingly Poisonous Chimaera

Chimaeron was next in line and proved to be quite the healing challenge, but fortunately not too difficult.

Disappointing and Potion Crazed

Maloriak... yeah I wasn't around for this kill but I'm sure it was, like, hard and stuff.

Draughty Prelude to Chief

We dreaded the Conclave of Wind fight and put it off for a bit, given our often flaky performance on the normal mode of the fight, but when we actually went for it, although it took a few nights of tries it wasn't actually that hard.

Deafening the Poor Chap

Atramedes turned out to be way easier than we expected.  With the heroic mode not really adding anything new to the fight we soon got it down (although the first kill was... a close call).

Dwarven Protective Constructs

With a heck of a lot going on at once, the Omnotron fight was quite challenging to learn (dealing with the tricky combinations properly and not failing on the basic stuff were the main orders of the day).  Fun fight though.

Damn Pesky Centipede

Magmaw went down today after the second night of attempts.  Good kiting, good healing, and not standing in fire are key to victory here.

Seems we forgot to take a screenshot of this kill so, erm, here's a picture of some DPC officers standing where the boss would have been! Yay!

(I wasn't even there for the kill, why am I in that shot??)

DPC's Progress Continues 

So I hope you enjoyed reading this post more than I enjoyed making it.  We're over half-way through the bosses now, just the much more difficult ones left to go.  No problem...